TNW 402: Pixel's 'Magic Cue' Shows AI's Real Future - Meta's Ambitious Data Center
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent on Tech News Weekly this week! OpenAI is being sued following a teen's suicide, which was blamed on ChatGPT. Detecting and countering the misuse of AI. A review of the Pixel 10 Pro. And Meta has poured $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build an ambitious data center.
- (Content Warning) Emily talks about a lawsuit that was brought to OpenAI following a teen's suicide after using ChatGPT.
- Mikah discusses Anthropic's recent threat intelligence report, which examines how bad actors are finding ways to misuse the company's AI models.
- Allison Johnson of The Verge chats with Mikah about her review of the Pixel 10 Pro phone and how the new feature, Magic Cue, impressed Allison at times.
- And finally, MIkah shares how Meta has invested $10 billion into a rural part of Louisiana to build a large data center to fuel the company's AI ambitions.
(If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - call or text 988 or chat online at chat.988lifeline.org. If you are located outside the United States, please visit findahelpline.com to find a helpline in your country.)
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guest: Allison Johnson
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Emily Forlini is here, and we start off the conversation this week with a story, a harrowing tale of a teenager who took his own life after using a chatbot. |
| 0:14.0 | And now the parents of that child are suing open AI. |
| 0:19.7 | We also talk about Anthropics study of the security concerns and |
| 0:26.4 | the misuse of AI in 2025 before Allison Johnson of the Verge joins us to give us her review of the |
| 0:34.5 | Pixel 10 Pro. And I round things out with a story of a gigantic server |
| 0:40.6 | in Louisiana and meta's $10 billion investment. All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:50.6 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. |
| 0:56.5 | This is Twitter. |
| 1:07.7 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 402, with Emily Forlini and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, August 28th, 2025. |
| 1:11.9 | Pixel's Magic Q shows AI's real future. |
| 1:20.2 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:27.3 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week on the fourth Thursday. Fourth? What Thursday is this? The final Thursday of the month |
| 1:31.5 | by the wonderful Emily for Lini. Welcome back, Em. Hello, great to be here. Good to have you. I |
| 1:39.1 | realized I just called you M. I know. It was warm and fuzzy. I liked it. Oh, good, good. Because some people, |
| 1:45.2 | the nicknames are like, no, so I'm glad. I'm glad it was a positive thing. Yes. |
| 1:50.2 | Great to have you here. Thank you for being here despite the jet lag. We appreciate it. |
| 1:56.1 | For people who are tuning in for the first time, or maybe you just have forgotten, |
| 2:00.4 | you're experiencing |
| 2:00.9 | some jet lag of your own. This is the part of the show where my wonderful guest co-host and I |
| 2:06.6 | share our stories of the week. Before we get into Emily's Story of the Week, I just want to |
| 2:13.3 | give a little content warning. The following story does discuss the sensitive topic of suicide and |
| 2:18.6 | self-harm. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, please contact the |
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